The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-29
THE NATIONS POSTAGE
Report Of the Third Assistant
Postmaster General.
HORRIBLE HOLOCAUST.
Senator JoRes-The National Banks
A Tamm3ny Tender-misoel-
laneous.
Ths Postal Department

WASHINGTON, November % The re
port of the third assistant Postmaster
General for the last fiscal year show:
the total ordinary postal revenue Of
the year was $48,l1S,273; revenue from
money order business, s7l9,336; total
revenue, S48, 837 900. Total expendi-
lures for the year, including actual and
estimated outstanding liabilities, s53,-
1873 80; deficit in revenue, 81 295 642. In
addition to this there was certified to
the Secretary OF the Treasury for
the credit of the Pacific rail
way companies $I,1S7 OF, earned by
them for carrying mails. Total
excess of the cost OF the postal
service over the revenue $54S2 go. The
receipts OF the year are Ill per cent
greater than the previous year, while
the increase of expenditures was at the
ratio of but "a per cent. The delivery
system has made considerable advance
during the year. The total value of all
stamped paper issued by the depart
men during the year was SAG, 6l9 $50, an
increase of nearly Z per cent. The
postage collected on second-class mat
ter was 81 262, 348, representing weight
of over So .000 tons, an increase of Is pei
cent. over the previous year.
Three important recommendations
are made. The first of these is that the
postage on all second class matter shall
be paid by the attachment oil
for all ether mail matter. The
papers and periodicals be admitted
70 thn IL rafl of
words, that certain books which it is
claimed are IN no sense periodicals
except that they profess to be issued at
regular periods be admitted only al
third class rates. The third is that the
number of sample copies of second
class matter 10 be sent out by publishers
be limited, as many periodicals which
under the law now gain admittapce as
second-class matter, are enabled by the
privilege of mailing sample copies TO
defeat the law excluding publications
issued for advertising purposes or at
nominal prices of subscription.
WASHINGTON, November 27.-The an
nual report of First Assistant Post
master General Steven on shows the
number of poetoffices established dur
ing the past fiscal year was ,043; the
increase in the whole number was
1,543 The whole number of post0fTlcrs
in operation on June 30. 1887. was SIS 1877
The appointments of postmasterS dur
ing the year ware as follows. On re
and commissions, expired,
6 1868; on removals and suspensions,
2 584: on deaths of postmasters, $50;
on the establishment of new Offices,
3,043; there were seven States
which On June Goth contained
more than 600 offices each. as follows:
Pennsylvania. Ala: New York. 8 248:
Ohio, 1884; Virginia, 1855: Illinois,
2 ,266; Missouri. III, and North Caro-
lima, 2,110. AS a result of the annual
of postmasters' salaries,
which took effect on July I, 1887,
twenty-five offices of the third class
were reduced to the fourth class, and
two offices of the fourth class were as
signed TO the third class, leaving 1856
offices, divided into classes
and numbers, as follows: First, 80;
second. 435; third. 1879. The number
Of money order Offices in operation was
,745.